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Localized Appreesh: The Sandwitches

Localized Appreesh is our weekly thank-you column to the musicians that make the Bay. Each week a band/music-maker with a show, album release, or general good news is highlighted and spotlit. To be considered, contact emilysavage@sfbg.com.

The Sandwitches are all about high highs and low lows. The vocals of Heidi Alexander and Grace Cooper (both former back-up singers for Fresh & Onlys) defy the bounds of San Francisco garage, piping up from low and fuzzed out to high-pitched and near theatrical. The music strays similiarly from convention, with an underlying garage-pop root that sometimes hits close to country-folk, other times lends itself more toward dewy trophy love song/doo-wap. It's a sound that takes a minute to digest – and that's a good thing.

You can check it out for yourself. The trio's upcoming seven-inch single The Pearl is streaming now, here. And then you can go see it live. The Sandwitches will fill the opening slot of a pretty righteous show this week at the Fillmore, with headliners/Australian indie poppers Architecture in Helsinki and lo-fi American rockers DOM.

You may protest, “but that's not how you spell sandwiches!” Yes, spelling wizards, it's a play on words. Sand-witches. Witches of bread. Meaning sourdough with warts, or something less gross. Spooky PB&J? Bubbling cauldrons of BLT? Or as you'll see below, the name simply came from “a process of elimination.” It's also way easier to Google.

Year and location of origin: 2009, Frisco, baby.Band name origin: A process of elimination Band motto: "More feeling"Description of sound in 10 words or less: dingy, pingy, bumpy, pumpy, lumpy, brash, sophisticated, and smooth. Instrumentation: Mexican telecaster, Mexican stratocaster, drum setMost recent release: The Pearl/Benny's Memory Palace 7", Hardly ArtBest part about life as a Bay Area band: The buds [ed note -- double entendre?]Worst part about life as a Bay Area band: The fog?First record/cassette tape/or CD ever purchased: Queen Greatest Hits I & II, Blue Beatles hits collection on tape.Most recent record/cassette tape/CD/or Mp3 purchased/borrowed from the Web: Jackie Gleason, Music for Lover's Only.Favorite local eatery and dish: Chevys and fried chicken.